Frederick Jackson Turner papers [microform], 1862-1932.

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Frederick Jackson Turner papers [microform], 1862-1932.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/213726885

The collection includes both personal and professional materials. Introductory remarks and compilation of survey by Ray Billington and Wilbur R. Jacobs.

1 reel of microfilm (35mm)

University of California, Santa Barbara, UCSB Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7010418

University of California, Santa Barbara, UCSB Library

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Turner, Frederick Jackson, 1861-1932

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Frederick Jackson Turner, professor and historian, became a leading scholar after he published, in 1893, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," his revolutionary thesis that American society owed its distincitve characteristics to experience with an undeveloped frontier. He was born on November 14, 1861 in Portage, Wisconsin, the son of Andrew Jackson Turner, a journalist and politician. His scholary work was first carried on at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he t...

Jacobs, Wilbur R.

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Wilbur R. Jacobs was a founding member of the faculty of the History Department at UCSB and an internationally recognized scholar in the fields of American Indian [Native American] history, environmental history, US. colonial history, and the West/westward expansion, including examination of the work of Francis Parkman and Frederick Jackson Turner. He was the recipient of numerous awards, including the Western History Association's Award of Merit. From the description of Wilbur R. Ja...